Fences

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The Locks and the Garden, a photo by tanuki_green on Flickr.

Walls. Barriers. Limitations. Whether they are imposed upon us by an external force or by ourselves they are there. Whether they are keeping something out or keeping something in, they are there. The trick is using these to our advantage. Learn from them.

In my case, I’ll impose a limitation on myself for during a photo shoot to help me be more creative. I was doing a shoot last night where I imposed the limitation of only using one specific lens. By doing this it really forced me to think about they way I compose the shot in the camera, how I use the light around me, etc. It made me think more about the shot I wanted to get and how to best get it.

And I couldn’t be more happy with both the photos from that shoot and with the lessons learned from doing this. It’s a valuable technique from the toolkit.

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